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1# regcomp.sym
2#
3# File has two sections, divided by a line of dashes '-'.
4#
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5# Lines beginning with # are ignored, except for those that start with #*
6# which are included in pod/perldebguts.pod. # within a line may be part
7# of a description.
03363afd 8#
486ec47a 9# First section is for regops, second section is for regmatch-states
03363afd 10#
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11# Note that the order in this file is important.
12#
03363afd 13# Format for first section:
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14# NAME \s+ TYPE, arg-description [num-args] [flags] [longjump] ; DESCRIPTION
15# flag <S> means is REGNODE_SIMPLE; flag <V> means is REGNODE_VARIES; <.> is
16# a placeholder
17# longjump is 1 if the (first) argument holds the next offset.
03363afd 18#
3dab1dad 19#
c476f425 20# run perl regen.pl after editing this file
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22
23
381b57db 24#* Exit points
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26END END, no ; End of program.
27SUCCEED END, no ; Return from a subroutine, basically.
d09b2d29 28
d3d47aac 29#* Line Start Anchors:
1645b83c 30#Note flags field for SBOL indicates if it is a /^/ or a /\A/
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31SBOL BOL, no ; Match "" at beginning of line: /^/, /\A/
32MBOL BOL, no ; Same, assuming multiline: /^/m
33
34#* Line End Anchors:
35SEOL EOL, no ; Match "" at end of line: /$/
36MEOL EOL, no ; Same, assuming multiline: /$/m
37EOS EOL, no ; Match "" at end of string: /\z/
38
39#* Match Start Anchors:
40GPOS GPOS, no ; Matches where last m//g left off.
41
42#* Word Boundary Opcodes:
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43# The regops that have varieties that vary depending on the character set regex
44# modifiers have to ordered thusly: /d, /l, /u, /a, /aa. This is because code
45# in regcomp.c uses the enum value of the modifier as an offset from the /d
46# version. The complements must come after the non-complements.
3018b823 47# BOUND, POSIX and their complements are affected, as well as EXACTF.
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48BOUND BOUND, no ; Like BOUNDA for non-utf8, otherwise match "" between any Unicode \w\W or \W\w
49BOUNDL BOUND, no ; Like BOUND/BOUNDU, but \w and \W are defined by current locale
912b808c 50BOUNDU BOUND, no ; Match "" at any boundary of a given type using /u rules.
c440a570 51BOUNDA BOUND, no ; Match "" at any boundary between \w\W or \W\w, where \w is [_a-zA-Z0-9]
693fefec 52# All NBOUND nodes are required by code in regexec.c to be greater than all BOUND ones
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53NBOUND NBOUND, no ; Like NBOUNDA for non-utf8, otherwise match "" between any Unicode \w\w or \W\W
54NBOUNDL NBOUND, no ; Like NBOUND/NBOUNDU, but \w and \W are defined by current locale
912b808c 55NBOUNDU NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any non-boundary of a given type using using /u rules.
c440a570 56NBOUNDA NBOUND, no ; Match "" betweeen any \w\w or \W\W, where \w is [_a-zA-Z0-9]
d09b2d29 57
381b57db 58#* [Special] alternatives:
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59REG_ANY REG_ANY, no 0 S ; Match any one character (except newline).
60SANY REG_ANY, no 0 S ; Match any one character.
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61ANYOF ANYOF, sv charclass S ; Match character in (or not in) this class, single char match only
62ANYOFD ANYOF, sv charclass S ; Like ANYOF, but /d is in effect
63ANYOFL ANYOF, sv charclass S ; Like ANYOF, but /l is in effect
64ANYOFPOSIXL ANYOF, sv charclass_posixl S ; Like ANYOFL, but matches [[:posix:]] classes
765e6ecf 65ANYOFH ANYOF, sv 1 S ; Like ANYOF, but only has "High" matches, none in the bitmap; non-zero flags "f" means "f" is the first UTF-8 byte shared in common by all code points matched
67a1b5f9 66ANYOFM ANYOFM byte 1 S ; Like ANYOF, but matches an invariant byte as determined by the mask and arg
3db0bccc 67NANYOFM ANYOFM byte 1 S ; complement of ANYOFM
693fefec 68
d3d47aac 69#* POSIX Character Classes:
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70# Order of the below is important. See ordering comment above.
71POSIXD POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /d; the FLAGS field gives which one
72POSIXL POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /l; the FLAGS field gives which one
73POSIXU POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /u; the FLAGS field gives which one
3615ea58 74POSIXA POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /a; the FLAGS field gives which one
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75NPOSIXD NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXD, [[:^class:]]
76NPOSIXL NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXL, [[:^class:]]
77NPOSIXU NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXU, [[:^class:]]
9e84774b 78NPOSIXA NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXA, [[:^class:]]
3018b823 79# End of order is important
693fefec 80
2448cf39 81CLUMP CLUMP, no 0 V ; Match any extended grapheme cluster sequence
d09b2d29 82
381b57db 83#* Alternation
1de06328 84
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85#* BRANCH The set of branches constituting a single choice are
86#* hooked together with their "next" pointers, since
87#* precedence prevents anything being concatenated to
88#* any individual branch. The "next" pointer of the last
89#* BRANCH in a choice points to the thing following the
90#* whole choice. This is also where the final "next"
91#* pointer of each individual branch points; each branch
92#* starts with the operand node of a BRANCH node.
93#*
f9ef50a7 94BRANCH BRANCH, node 0 V ; Match this alternative, or the next...
d09b2d29 95
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96#*Literals
97# NOTE: the relative ordering of these types is important do not change it
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f8abb37e 99EXACT EXACT, str ; Match this string (preceded by length).
b24abbc8 100EXACTL EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but /l is in effect (used so locale-related warnings can be checked for).
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101EXACTF EXACT, str ; Match this string using /id rules (w/len); (string not UTF-8, not guaranteed to be folded).
102EXACTFL EXACT, str ; Match this string using /il rules (w/len); (string not guaranteed to be folded).
103EXACTFU EXACT, str ; Match this string using /iu rules (w/len); (string folded iff in UTF-8; non-UTF8 folded length <= unfolded).
104EXACTFAA EXACT, str ; Match this string using /iaa rules (w/len) (string folded iff in UTF-8; non-UTF8 folded length <= unfolded).
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105
106# End of important relative ordering.
107
627a7895 108EXACTFUP EXACT, str ; Match this string using /iu rules (w/len); (string not UTF-8, not guaranteed to be folded; and its Problematic).
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109# In order for a non-UTF-8 EXACTFAA to think the pattern is pre-folded when
110# matching a UTF-8 target string, there would have to be something like an
111# EXACTFAA_MICRO which would not be considered pre-folded for UTF-8 targets,
112# since the fold of the MICRO SIGN would not be done, and would be
113# representable in the UTF-8 target string.
114
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115EXACTFLU8 EXACT, str ; Like EXACTFU, but use /il, UTF-8, folded, and everything in it is above 255.
116EXACTFAA_NO_TRIE EXACT, str ; Match this string using /iaa rules (w/len) (string not UTF-8, not guaranteed to be folded, not currently trie-able).
d09b2d29 117
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118
119EXACT_ONLY8 EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but only UTF-8 encoded targets can match
120EXACTFU_ONLY8 EXACT, str ; Like EXACTFU, but only UTF-8 encoded targets can match
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121# One could add EXACTFAA8 and and something that has the same effect for /l,
122# but these would be extremely uncommon
f6b4b99d 123
95fb0a6e 124EXACTFU_S_EDGE EXACT, str ; /di rules, but nothing in it precludes /ui, except begins and/or ends with [Ss]; (string not UTF-8; compile-time only).
8a100c91 125
381b57db 126#*Do nothing types
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f8abb37e 128NOTHING NOTHING, no ; Match empty string.
65aa4ca7 129#*A variant of above which delimits a group, thus stops optimizations
f8abb37e 130TAIL NOTHING, no ; Match empty string. Can jump here from outside.
d09b2d29 131
381b57db 132#*Loops
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65aa4ca7 134#* STAR,PLUS '?', and complex '*' and '+', are implemented as
62e6ef33 135#* circular BRANCH structures. Simple cases
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136#* (one character per match) are implemented with STAR
137#* and PLUS for speed and to minimize recursive plunges.
138#*
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139STAR STAR, node 0 V ; Match this (simple) thing 0 or more times.
140PLUS PLUS, node 0 V ; Match this (simple) thing 1 or more times.
d09b2d29 141
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142CURLY CURLY, sv 2 V ; Match this simple thing {n,m} times.
143CURLYN CURLY, no 2 V ; Capture next-after-this simple thing
144CURLYM CURLY, no 2 V ; Capture this medium-complex thing {n,m} times.
145CURLYX CURLY, sv 2 V ; Match this complex thing {n,m} times.
d09b2d29 146
65aa4ca7 147#*This terminator creates a loop structure for CURLYX
f9ef50a7 148WHILEM WHILEM, no 0 V ; Do curly processing and see if rest matches.
d09b2d29 149
381b57db 150#*Buffer related
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65aa4ca7 152#*OPEN,CLOSE,GROUPP ...are numbered at compile time.
f8abb37e 153OPEN OPEN, num 1 ; Mark this point in input as start of #n.
48e88d42 154CLOSE CLOSE, num 1 ; Close corresponding OPEN of #n.
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155SROPEN SROPEN, none ; Same as OPEN, but for script run
156SRCLOSE SRCLOSE, none ; Close preceding SROPEN
d09b2d29 157
f9ef50a7 158REF REF, num 1 V ; Match some already matched string
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159REFF REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /di rules.
160REFFL REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /li rules.
781aab5c 161# N?REFF[AU] could have been implemented using the FLAGS field of the
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162# regnode, but by having a separate node type, we can use the existing switch
163# statement to avoid some tests
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164REFFU REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, usng /ui.
165REFFA REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /aai rules.
d09b2d29 166
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167#*Named references. Code in regcomp.c assumes that these all are after
168#*the numbered references
01f98ec2 169NREF REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match some already matched string
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170NREFF REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /di rules.
171NREFFL REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /li rules.
172NREFFU REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /ui rules.
173NREFFA REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /aai rules.
1de06328 174
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175#*Support for long RE
176LONGJMP LONGJMP, off 1 . 1 ; Jump far away.
177BRANCHJ BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; BRANCH with long offset.
178
179#*Special Case Regops
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180IFMATCH BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Succeeds if the following matches; non-zero flags "f", next_off "o" means lookbehind assertion starting "f..(f-o)" characters before current
181UNLESSM BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Fails if the following matches; non-zero flags "f", next_off "o" means lookbehind assertion starting "f..(f-o)" characters before current
f9ef50a7 182SUSPEND BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; "Independent" sub-RE.
65aa4ca7 183IFTHEN BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; Switch, should be preceded by switcher.
f8abb37e 184GROUPP GROUPP, num 1 ; Whether the group matched.
d09b2d29 185
d09b2d29 186
381b57db 187#*The heavy worker
1de06328 188
13f27704 189EVAL EVAL, evl/flags 2L ; Execute some Perl code.
d09b2d29 190
381b57db 191#*Modifiers
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193MINMOD MINMOD, no ; Next operator is not greedy.
194LOGICAL LOGICAL, no ; Next opcode should set the flag only.
d09b2d29 195
65aa4ca7 196#*This is not used yet
f9ef50a7 197RENUM BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Group with independently numbered parens.
d09b2d29 198
381b57db 199#*Trie Related
1de06328 200
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201#* Behave the same as A|LIST|OF|WORDS would. The '..C' variants
202#* have inline charclass data (ascii only), the 'C' store it in the
203#* structure.
486ec47a 204# NOTE: the relative order of the TRIE-like regops is significant
ce5e9471 205
7986cb47 206TRIE TRIE, trie 1 ; Match many EXACT(F[ALU]?)? at once. flags==type
f8abb37e 207TRIEC TRIE,trie charclass ; Same as TRIE, but with embedded charclass data
3dab1dad 208
1de06328 209# For start classes, contains an added fail table.
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210AHOCORASICK TRIE, trie 1 ; Aho Corasick stclass. flags==type
211AHOCORASICKC TRIE,trie charclass ; Same as AHOCORASICK, but with embedded charclass data
1de06328 212
381b57db 213#*Regex Subroutines
f8abb37e 214GOSUB GOSUB, num/ofs 2L ; recurse to paren arg1 at (signed) ofs arg2
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381b57db 216#*Special conditionals
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217NGROUPP NGROUPP, no-sv 1 ; Whether the group matched.
218INSUBP INSUBP, num 1 ; Whether we are in a specific recurse.
219DEFINEP DEFINEP, none 1 ; Never execute directly.
0a4db386 220
486ec47a 221#*Backtracking Verbs
f8abb37e 222ENDLIKE ENDLIKE, none ; Used only for the type field of verbs
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223OPFAIL ENDLIKE, no-sv 1 ; Same as (?!), but with verb arg
224ACCEPT ENDLIKE, no-sv/num 2L ; Accepts the current matched string, with verbar
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225
226#*Verbs With Arguments
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227VERB VERB, no-sv 1 ; Used only for the type field of verbs
228PRUNE VERB, no-sv 1 ; Pattern fails at this startpoint if no-backtracking through this
229MARKPOINT VERB, no-sv 1 ; Push the current location for rollback by cut.
230SKIP VERB, no-sv 1 ; On failure skip forward (to the mark) before retrying
231COMMIT VERB, no-sv 1 ; Pattern fails outright if backtracking through this
232CUTGROUP VERB, no-sv 1 ; On failure go to the next alternation in the group
e2e6a0f1 233
ee9b8eae 234#*Control what to keep in $&.
f8abb37e 235KEEPS KEEPS, no ; $& begins here.
ee9b8eae 236
e1d1eefb 237#*New charclass like patterns
f8abb37e 238LNBREAK LNBREAK, none ; generic newline pattern
3172e3fd 239
381b57db 240# NEW STUFF SOMEWHERE ABOVE THIS LINE
1de06328 241
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242################################################################################
243
7f69552c 244#*SPECIAL REGOPS
1de06328 245
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246#* This is not really a node, but an optimized away piece of a "long"
247#* node. To simplify debugging output, we mark it as if it were a node
f8abb37e 248OPTIMIZED NOTHING, off ; Placeholder for dump.
1de06328 249
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250#* Special opcode with the property that no opcode in a compiled program
251#* will ever be of this type. Thus it can be used as a flag value that
252#* no other opcode has been seen. END is used similarly, in that an END
253#* node cant be optimized. So END implies "unoptimizable" and PSEUDO
254#* mean "not seen anything to optimize yet".
f8abb37e 255PSEUDO PSEUDO, off ; Pseudo opcode for internal use.
1de06328 256
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257-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
258# Format for second section:
65aa4ca7 259# REGOP \t typelist [ \t typelist]
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260# typelist= namelist
261# = namelist:FAIL
262# = name:count
263
264# Anything below is a state
265#
266#
f8abb37e 267TRIE next:FAIL
4ee16520 268EVAL B,postponed_AB:FAIL
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269CURLYX end:FAIL
270WHILEM A_pre,A_min,A_max,B_min,B_max:FAIL
271BRANCH next:FAIL
272CURLYM A,B:FAIL
273IFMATCH A:FAIL
21cbe009 274CURLY B_min,B_max:FAIL
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275COMMIT next:FAIL
276MARKPOINT next:FAIL
277SKIP next:FAIL
278CUTGROUP next:FAIL
279KEEPS next:FAIL